At 11:39 AM 4/9/2007, Peter St. John wrote:
>Well, I could run unix with all 1536K, but not MS/PCDOS 3.2. So call
>it a software issue of failing to work around the hardware issue.
>Obviously the hardware was not a show-stopper.
>>But it was the 286 I did this on, not the earlier 8088, which I
>don't think could reasonably have been expected to run unix;
No problem running unix on a 8086.. (Don't forget Xenix on 8086 or
80286) Or, for that matter, on a 68000. (maybe the 68010 with the
mmu or the 020 with virtual memory?.. I seem to remember DRAM refresh
by 64 NOPs on the timer tick)
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